The Gilgamesh Free State was an Insurrectionist secessionist government on the colony of Gilgamesh. Initially established in 2501 as the Gilgamesh Free Army, it was composed mainly of Colonial Military Administration personnel who had been separated from the CMA after the organization's involvement with the Insurrection went public. Quickly incorporating other small rebel groups, by 2524, the organization had control over many of the frontier settlements on the colony, and was rechristened as the Gilgamesh Free State in 2525. With the Human-Covenant War diverting the attention of the United Nations Space Command elsewhere, Gilgamesh became almost completely lawless, and the GFS began expanding, coercing the various criminal syndicates into working to keep order within the Free State's new